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    Default Gerbera Daisy ... How To Save The Reds

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    Hoping some one will know if the reds can be improved on this photo. I was not as careful as I should have been with the reds on this one. Most like occured with the use of my flash. My bad...

    Canon 5D, EF 100- 400 mm f/4.5- 5.6 L IS lens, 550 EX flash and Bogen tripod.

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    I'm probably the wrong person to be commenting on how to handle reds. :)

    Since most dig cameras have problems with reds, I think the best way to handle the problem is to desaturate them in PP. I just had a quick play with your shot in CS3 and dropping the reds -20 seemed to do the trick. It seemed a little dark so I then used the S/H tool to brighten things up.

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    Charlie, I did the same thing as Ken only I opened it in Adobe Camera Raw and moved the reds down 18 points but that left them flat so I adjusted the oranges as well, moving the orange hue to -7 and then +8 on the saturation. If you have ACR try adjusting the luminance of the reds and oranges as well until you get a color tone you like.

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    I love the sharpness of the details, and the gorgeous red against blue. It loooks a little dark. :)

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    Love the red/blue combination and the great detail, comp of this Charles.:)

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